God’s own Country

God’s own country gives a rather vivid description of a rural kid in the England who struggled coping with different aspects/events in his life. The kid was living an unhappy life, disgruntled about his friends leaving for college, uneasy with his father’s expectations from him and so on. His interactions with a Romanian migrant worker, especially the initial hostility towards him, reminded me of the political scenario in the UK during the Brexit vote. I also felt the film was a little too direct for me personally. Scenes like the two being involved sexually outdoors made me slightly uncomfortable. However, I also feel it exposed me to a different kind of cinematic art, and possibly a different life style, a rural and foreign one, which I have had no exposure to.

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  1. You raise some interesting points here. What do you think was the source of that discomfort? And what do you mean by “too direct”? Can you elaborate further on what you see as the relevance of this film to Brexit?